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Judgement Day! (368)

Judgement Day!

After May's win at the Lilycove Contest, Ash & Co. decide to head towards the open seas and come to an Island with a guy who has the 3 Kanto Middle Evolution Starters. However Team Rocket appear and want to nab them, will they?

I thought the battle between Ash & Brock was fun to see. They haven't battled eachother in a loooooong time. Jimmy seemed more unique than most filler characters, too. I wouldn't be surprised if he made another appearence.

Well, this is the first episode with the new title screen. It makes me wonder if 4Kids will use this new one. If so, then they'll really pay for messing with Ash's badge case design. After all, the screen starts with a Poke Ball that spins around and turns into the Poke Ball on his badge case. What'll 4Kids do, turn it into a spinning rectangle? Every episode afterwards? A spinning rectangle just isn't intresting. I hope 4Kids has learned a valuable lesson.

And the episode was good, too. It had "Type Wild" during Ash and Brock's battle.

You know how 4Kids used to dub onigiri as sandwiches? Well, they've taken it a step further this time. This is beyond ridiculous. It's impossible for a sandwich to roll down a hill, but this one did.

*twitch twitch* Jees la freakin weize. It's amazing just how far these dubbers go to get rid of any Japanese references in a show that was made in Japan.

Originally Posted by Phantom_Bugzy

The only thing I wanna see with peanut butter and jelly in this ep is Jimmy. Covered in it. Naked. Mm-mm-MM.

...I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that. O_o

Originally Posted by Geodude

They could've at least changed it into a donut instead of a sandwich. At least a donut could conceivably roll.

Yeah, but then that would actully make sense. XP

As for the episode itself, it was kinda iffy. I enjoyed seeing the middle stage Kanto starters again after so long (yay Lizard!), and an episode revolving around a Pokemon battle referee was sure different.

I was confused about one major thing, in the double battle Takeshi apperently did an illegal move that would disqualify him from the battle. (at first i thought it was Fake Out) If this really was an illegal tactic, wouldn't a former gym leader like Takeshi know that?

I thought this was a pretty decent episode to end Season 7 with. At first I thought 4kids made a dubbing error when May referred to Ivysaur as a Venusaur, but it was funny when she realized she got it all wrong.

OMGWTF, Brock actually does something in this episode? He hasn't battled in ages. Isn't this the first episode where it focused on the judges who referee the matches? I don't remember them ever doing this episode before.

This episode had stronger continuity than usual, showing how Jimmy got a Cascade badge from Daisy. Looks like Daisy is still content with giving away badges for nothing, no wonder why Misty wants to stay at the GYM.

Funny how Jimmy traded away the Shiny Magikarp for a Charmeleon without noticing anything special about it. Thank god May has a Pokedex, it's much less frustrating to see May scan old Pokemon (that are new to her), rather than to see Ash scan Pokemon he's seen many times.

So Advanced Challenge comes to an end in a pretty decent finale. Overall a good ep.